Introduction to Linux

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March 1, 2016

What is Linux

Why you might need Linux

Free Open Source

“Free as in freedom”

Software with source code available that you are free to study, change and distribute for any purpose. Examples GPL, BSD licenses.

“Standing on the shoulders of giants”

Imagine:

= stifled innovation!

Open Source in Your Life

Linux Awareness

Brief History of Operating Systems

Learning Linux

Outline:

Linux distributions

Most popular ones:

Distros

Fedora

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Ubuntu

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Debian

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Linux Mint

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Command line

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Installation

VM Installation instructions

Windows users download link: Windows

Mac OSX users download link: MacOS

Download the ISO image of a Linux distribution (Ubuntu Linux or Linux Mint is recommended)

Note: amd64 means any Intel or AMD CPU - don’t let that confuse you

Installation

https://youtu.be/BSPVWOrMc3M

https://youtu.be/kC0BtOKTMHE

More learning

Next meeting

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Try the shell

Go to the address shown. Login with the username and password on the piece of paper.

Commands

You can try these commands in your shell window:

We can add switches to commands to change their behavior:

Commands

The following commands do things, like changing your current directory, creating and copying files etc.